yaaʼ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "yaa"

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *yaʼ.[1]

Noun

yaaʼ (possessed form biyaʼ)

  1. louse, tick, mite, flea

Inflection

Possessives of yaaʼ
singular duoplural plural
1st person shiyaʼ nihiyaʼ danihiyaʼ
2nd person niyaʼ nihiyaʼ danihiyaʼ
3rd person biyaʼ
4th person (3o) yiyaʼ
4th person (3a) hayaʼ
Indefinite (3i) ayaʼ

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Sharon Hargus, Keren Rice (2005) Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 94

Western Apache

Alternative forms

Noun

yaaʼ

  1. sky